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Category:Somali-born male long-distance runners

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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: selectively merge. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 03:49, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The notion of a person who was born in Somalia and is a male long-distance runner is already sufficiently accounted for at Category:Somalian male long-distance runners. I don't think being a Somali-born male long-distance runner who is not currently a Somalian citizen is a key enough characteristic to warrant its own categorisation scheme, and I would extend that to any combination of place of birth and athletics event. SFB 22:10, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Polaris people

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 07:42, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category had been used to list people who appeared on a specific show called Polaris Primetime or had a Youtube channel associated with Polaris. This goes against WP:PERFCAT and it is not used for employees of the company, which would fit Category:Maker Studios people. Many of the folks listed do not have any mention of Polaris in their biography, although some have listed Maker Studios. Note there is also a related category Category:Polaris channels. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 20:50, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Armenian people from Istanbul

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The result of the discussion was: relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 12#Category:Armenian_people_from_Istanbul. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 05:06, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Dual upmerge to Category:Ethnic Armenian people. This is an overcategorization which includes an ethnicity and sub-national (city) entity. TM 17:03, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure. Personally, I don't support Ethnic group in City categories in general, but I am especially opposed to biographies of members of an ethnic group from a city because it is likely to be included even when the city and their ethnicity are irrelevant to notability.--TM 13:25, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep -- This is a well-populated intersection. Even if ethnic group by city categories are discouraged, in this case there it an adequate population to keep. It should be stressed that Armenians as an ethnic group in Turkey are not expatriates from the Republic of Armenia, but people who were subjects of the Ottoman and Byzantine Empires, long before the present republic was even thought of. Due to the Ottoman millet system, such religious groups were in practice endogamous, so that they have become ethnicities or something close to that. I think they retain their own language. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:37, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
There are literally thousands of categories that could be adequately populated but that does not mean it is defining.--TM 18:45, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Discovery Communications

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The result of the discussion was: rename. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 04:38, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: New company name ViperSnake151  Talk  16:43, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Health standards

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 04:40, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Name is misleading. Rathfelder (talk) 16:05, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
They are about medical equipment. Not about the health of human beings. Rathfelder (talk) 19:54, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Emerging standards

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The result of the discussion was: relisted, see here (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 07:47, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: An inherently obsolete category - some of these standards appear to have been "emerging" for the last 10 years. All the articles seem to be about Wireless networking standards, but that is by no means the only arena in which standards emerge. Rathfelder (talk) 15:07, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Simplification

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The result of the discussion was: relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 12#Category:Simplification. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 04:47, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:NONDEF and WP:OR, items in these categories are not defined by the concept of simplification, the category content just reflects a personal view of what belongs to simplification. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:05, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:British standards

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Marcocapelle (talk) 07:48, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: In line with similar categories and to avoid confusion with Category:British Standards Rathfelder (talk) 10:09, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Late Iron Age Scotland

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The result of the discussion was: relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 12#Category:Late Iron Age Scotland. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 04:55, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: split because this is not a clear period in the history of Scotland. It has Scotland in the Early Middle Ages as it main article, while this is already the main article of its subCategory:Scotland in the Early Middle Ages; there are no articles Late Iron Age Scotland or Iron Age Scotland that indicate a clear period for the Late Iron Age in Scotland; and article British Iron Age suggests that the Scottish Iron Age ends as early as the 5th century, so long before 843 as the header of the category claims. Marcocapelle (talk) 01:34, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Dubious -- In England and Wales, Iron Age ends soon after AD 43. In Scotland, there was no permanent Roman conquest, so that the Iron Age continues much later. In Ireland the equivalent of the Dark Ages is "Early Christian". However, I am not clear what the accepted practice is in Scotland, where Christianity was a slightly later arrival. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:44, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Video game locations

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The result of the discussion was: relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 12#Category:Video game locations. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 04:55, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: There is a very large amount of overlap between this and Category:Video game levels. The majority of notable game locations are also most likely going to be levels, aside from the rare article about a notable fictional world. Sometimes it is hard to figure out what's a level but not a location. It's easier to just merge one into the other and avoid the hassle, I think. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 00:43, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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